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What If Clinton Had Rejected and Denied Her Iraq War Vote?

As the Democratic race, one way or another, begins to wind down, I wonder about what might have been: What if Hillary Clinton had both repudiated and apologized for her Iraq war vote in a way similar to John Edwards in that 2005 Washington Post op/ed? Such a mea culpa would have mitigated, though not fully neutralized, Obama’s effective rhetorical use of the vote as both a shield and attack.